From left, Elliot B. Karp, CEO of Hillels of Georgia; Renay Blumenthal, vice president of the Marcus Foundation; Stacey Fisher, chairperson of the Hillels of Georgia board of directors; Billy Bauman, secretary of the Hillels of Georgia board of directors; and Michael Coles, chairperson of the UGA Hillel Center capital campaign use ceremonial sledgehammers to smash a wall at the symbolic groundbreaking for the new UGA Hillel Center. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
From left, Elliot B. Karp, CEO of Hillels of Georgia; Renay Blumenthal, vice president of the Marcus Foundation; Stacey Fisher, chairperson of the Hillels of Georgia board of directors; Billy Bauman, secretary of the Hillels of Georgia board of directors; and Michael Coles, chairperson of the UGA Hillel Center capital campaign use ceremonial sledgehammers to smash a wall at the symbolic groundbreaking for the new UGA Hillel Center. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
UGA President Jere W. Morehead gives remarks during the UGA Hillel Center groundbreaking. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Jeremy Lichtig, campus director of UGA Hillel, speaks during the groundbreaking ceremony. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Sarah Schaffer shares her experience as a UGA Hillel student board member during the groundbreaking ceremony. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Elliot B. Karp, CEO of Hillels of Georgia, takes a photo of Steve Selig, emeritus trustee of the UGA Foundation, with Hairy Dawg and his wife, Linda Selig, before the start of the UGA Hillel Center groundbreaking ceremony. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Elliot B. Karp, CEO of Hillels of Georgia, addresses the audience at the UGA Hillel Center groundbreaking ceremony. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA)
Several community leaders and members joined Hillels of Georgia to break ground on the new Hillel Center at UGA on April 24.
UGA Hillel will renovate the former Baxter Street Bookstore. The new 10,000-square-foot building will be a space for UGA’s Jewish community to focus on programming, fellowship and community development.
UGA Hillel is the second largest Jewish student community in the state and offers programming such as a Jewish Learning Fellowship, Shabbat dinners, game day parking and events, yoga, community service, Onward Israel internships and Birthright trips to Israel to Jewish UGA students.
Construction is expected to begin in June, and the facility is expected to open in fall 2023.
For more information about the expansion and development project, or to donate to the capital campaign, please visit the UGA Hillel Capital Campaign website.
